ANNUAL REPORT 2020

S O D A F O U N D AT I O N
Jan 1, 2021

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR2OVERVIEW

FOUNDATIONPROJECTSEND USERSECOSYSTEMCOMMUNITY

EVENTS

3MILESTONES

4FOUNDATIONPREMIER MEMBERS• SODA Foundation officiallylaunched on Jun 29, 2020
• SODA chartered as an open source
data and storage project in LinuxFoundation

GENERAL MEMBERS• 26 Members & Supporters• 5 Premier, 7 General, 11supporters, 3 associates

SUPPORTERS

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

5LEADERSHIP
GOVERNING BOARD
STEVEN TAN,
FUTUREWEI(CHAIRMAN)

YUJI YAZAWA,TOYOTA
MOTOR CORP
(VICE-CHAIR)TECHNICAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE§§§§§§§§§§§XIN ZHONG,CHINA UNICOM(TREASURER)

ANJANEYAREDDYCHAGAM, INTELSHINYA
HAMONO,FUJITSU

END USER ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Rakesh Jain, IBM (Co-Chair)§Kei Kusunoki, NTT Communications (Co-Chair) §Xin Zhong, China Unicom§
Masanori Itoh, Toyota§Vinod E, Wipro§Hiroki Kimura, Fujitsu§Yusuf Yildiz, Linbit§
Shenglin Wu, ProphetStor§Kiran Mova, MayaData§
Prashant Mishra, Click2Cloud§
Sanil Kumar, Huawei§§

Yuji Yazawa, Toyota Motor Corp (Chair)
Cosimo Rosetti, Vodafone
Wim Jacobs, KPN
Tomoko Kondo, Softbank
Shinya Tsunetmatsu, GMO Pepabo
Yusuke Sato, Yahoo Japan
Terada Mitchitaka, Internet Initiative Japan
Michiharu Nakazawa, Sakura Internet
Zhan Shu, China Construction Bank Fintech
Wei Rao, China Railways
Xin Zhong, China Unicom
Kei Kusunoki, NTT Communications

KEI KUSUNOKI,NTTCOMMUNICATIONSRAKESH JAIN,IBM

YOSHIYA ETOU,
FUJITSU,LF FELLOW(ADVISOR)

OUTREACH COMMITTEE§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§

Lawrence Lai, Futurewei (Chair)
Shane Wang, Intel (Vice-Chair)Thomas Kozlowski, Linbit (Europe)
Brian Hellman, Linbit (N. America)
Trevor Phillipe, MayaData (N. America)
Brad King, Scality (N. America, Europe)
Masahiro Itoh, Individual (Japan)
Shinya Hamano, Fujitsu (Japan)
Shimada Ichiro, Sony (Japan)
Yusuke Sato, Yahoo! JAPAN (Japan)
Pierre Zhang, China Unicom (China)
Chenjing, Huawei (China)
Jiaming Pan, eHualu (China)
Xionlai, China Construction Bank Fintech (China)
Zengzan Liu, Scutech (China)
Sai Nath, Wipro (India)
Pradipta, IBM (India)
Uma Mukkara, MayaData (India)
Vivek, Microsoft (India)
Rupal Shirpurkar, Click2Cloud (India)
6Ashit Kumar, Huawei (India)

PROJECTS
SODA currently hosts 3 main projects•

Open Data Framework - unified dataand storage management frameworkwith standardized API•YIG – Incubated China Unicom YIG
massively scalable object storage thatis being used in production storing>5PB of data•

DAOS – Incubated Intel DAOS
distributed asynchronous object
storage for high-performance storage
with persistent memory•SODA Member Projects•

LINSTOR – by LINBIT, exploring incubation•ZENKO – by Scality, exploring incubation•OPENEBS – CNCF project by MayaData,
exploring integration

massively scalable
object storage

unified data and storage
management projects

distributed
asynchronous
object storage

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OPEN DATAFRAMEWORKFeatures:• block, file, object storage with API
standardization• heterogeneous storage
provisioning and monitoring• hybrid/multicloud to AWS, Google,Azure, Huawei, IBM, Alibaba clouds• support K8S, OpenStack, Vmware• Prometheus & Kafka integration• Performance visualization withGrafana• Performance anomaly detection• CSI plug & play
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YIG
YIG is a massively scalable object
storage project by China Unicom
donated to SODA Foundation. YIG isdeployed in production at China
Unicom with about 3-4PB of data
YIG ties together multiple Cephclusters at its backend to form a
massive storage resource pool
Storage can be expanded easily byadding new Ceph clusters without
performance degradation due to Ceph
rebalancing and other operations

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DAOS
DAOS stands for Distributed
Asynchronous Object Storage, aproject by Intel that was recently
incubated into SODA.
DAOS is a software-defined scale-outobject store that provides highbandwidth, low latency, and high I/O
operations per second (IOPS) storage
containers to HPC applications. It
enables next-generation data-centric
workflows that combine simulation,
data analytics and AI.

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2020 RELEASES
open design, open development
OPENSDS

FAROE v1.0

GREENLAND V1.1

HAWAII V1.2

I & Beyond• 2017H2 Zealand• 2018H1 Aruba• 2018H2 Bali
• 2019H1 Capri• 2019H2 Daito• 2020Q1 Elba

• Heterogeneous Storage
Management• Block/File Multi cloud• CSI Plug & Play experiment• Prometheus & Kafkaintegration• Storage Performance
Monitoring (SPM)• Multicloud object and file
• AWS, Azure, GCP• CSI Plug & Play• Edge data management• NetApp ONTAP & more

• Performance anomaly
detection• Performance visualization withGrafana• Enhanced cloud file shares forAWS, GCP, Azure, Huawei• Enhanced block AWS• More storage support - IBM
SVC, HDS VSP, EMC VNX• Self Healing• Self Optimize, Scale, Balance• Intelligent Data Protection• Intelligent Data Lifecycle• Intelligent Data Governance

TOWARDS OPEN DATA AUTONOMYPrelaunch

Jun 2020

Sep 2020

Dec 20202021+11

END USERS
SODA is an end-user driven
foundation. End users drive
roadmap requirements, provide
use cases, test and provide
feedback, and guide opportunities
for data and storage technologies.
The SODA End User Advisory
Committee meets regularly andprovides guidance to the Boardand TOC. The organizations
represented in the EUAC manages
some of the biggest data in theworld.

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ECOSYSTEM• End users drive roadmap
requirements, test & adopt,
provide feedback and validation• Community developers build
SODA projects and explore
cross-project integration• Vendors build interoperability
solutions around SODA projects• Industry organizations
collaboration forstandardization, certification, comarketing and events• Academia partnerships for labs,internships and research

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COMMUNITYSODA Foundation community has been growing even through the lockdowns in 2020.
Regional communities in Japan, China, and India are well established with many active
participants, while communities in America’s and Europe continue to grow.
Our social channels includes Twitter, YouTube, Slack, WeChat, and WhatsApp.

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EVENTSSODA Foundation held its first SODACON,participated in major open source conferences
worldwide, and held regular webinars.
2020 Conferences:• SODACON 2020
• SNIA Storage Developer Conference• Open Source Summit North America• Open Source Summit Europe• Open Source Summit China• Open Source India• K8S Forum, Bengaluru & Delhi• OpenStack+SODA+Ceph Day, China

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SODACON 2020
SODACON – the data and storage conference• 60+ speakers, 30+ sessions, 400+ global
attendees• Organizations represented:Accenture, China Construction Bank Fintech, China
Mobile, China Unicom, Cloudera, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel,Linbit, Mayadata, Microsoft, NetEase, OPPO, Redhat,Reliance, Seagate, Scality, Sony, Toyota, Walmart Labs,Wipro, Yahoo! JAPAN, SNIA, CNCF, IEEE, CESI,CCICI,JDSF
Others5%
AI/ML in Data
Storage
Management
Monitoring
12%
10%
Cloud Native
Storage
12%

Multi Cloud Data
12%

Data Governance8%

Heterogeneous
Storage
Management
9%

Edge Data
9%

Data Security
12%
Data Protection
11%

Attendee Interests

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LOOKING TOWARDS 2021

S O D A F O U N D AT I O N
Jan 1, 2021

2021 GOALSTechnology•

Focus on cloud native; enable analytics, AI/ML and edge•

Incubate and integrate data & storage projects

fundingprojects

Community•

Regions – make India, China, Japan more active, grow US and Europe•

Grow end user community and add more data software + cloud vendors

Ecosystem•Build out SODA landscape•Partner with ecosystem organizations and projects

Brand•

The foundation for open source data and storage•Helping end users with their data and storage challenges

technology

community

marketingprograms

brandevents

ecosystem

partnerships

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PROJECTS
Objectives:

CLOUD NATIVE

VIRTUALIZATIONIOTBIG DATA

AI/ML

EDGE COMPUTE• Boost end user adoption with
proof-of-concept testing• Create SODA reference
solutions with for analytics,
AI/ML and edge
• Integrate YIG and DAOS withOpen Data Framework• Accept quality data and storage
projects to the Incubator

block, file,object

backup &recovery

lifecycle &tiering

security &complianceretention &archive

analytics &intelligence

OPEN, INTELLIGENT, AUTONOMOUS

EDGE

|CORE

|

CLOUD

• Drive data and storage
management standards• Build virtual lab fordevelopment & tests
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ROADMAPHAWAII RELEASEI RELEASEJ RELEASEK RELEASE

L RELEASE

M & BEYOND• Anomaly Detection• SPM Visualization (Grafana)• IBM SVC, HDS VSP, EMC VNX• Hybrid Cloud Blk/Files• Data Archival/ Retrieval (On-prem-AWS)• Data Lifecycle Phase 1• Long Term Retention/Archive• Data Lifecycle Phase 2• Data Protection Phase 1• Performance Benchmarking• Basic SODA Edge

• Data Lifecyle Phase 3• Data Protection Phase 2• Geo Data Store Files/Objects• CSI Dock

• Data Protection Phase 3• Industry SODA API Standards• Hybrid DR• Data Framework for Edge

• Self Healing• SODA Compliance & Certification• Hybrid DDS (F/B/O)

Q4 2021

Q1 2022

Q1 2021

Q2 2021

Q3 20212022+Key Developments• Cloud Native Storage•

Support all CSI storage drivers• Heterogeneous Storage Management•

Monitoring, Anomaly Detection, Analytics• Geo Data Store (File/Object)••••

Global Metadata
Search, Analytics
Spans across edge, data center, cloud
Leverage existing projects where possible

O&M DOCK• AI/Automation••

Data Lifecycle/Tiering
Data Protection

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PROGRAMS

BOOTCAMP

INTERNSHIP

INCUBATORAMBASSADORBOUNTYThe
Bootcamp
programincludestraining courses onSODA
dataandstorage
projects tohelp
individuals
acquire the skills todevelop and operate
SODA projects.

TheInternshipprogram provides paid
opportunities for new
developers to join andlearn
fromSODAmentors by working onprojects.

The Incubator provides
services to incubateddataandstorage
projects to help themdevelop, grow and beadopted by end users.
YIG and DAOS are theexisting projects in theincubator.

TheAmbassador
programprovidesfinancial support for
influencers to educate
and evangelize SODA
projects
andtechnology.

The Bounty program
rewards developers for
SODA project featuresdevelopment, design,tests, bug fixes, anddocumentation.

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SODA HOSTED/CO-LOCATED

2021 EVENTS•SODACON CHINA @LF China

Jun/Jul•

SODACON INDIA @ OSITBD•

SODACON AMERICA @OSS Vancouver

8/3-8/6•

SODACON EUROPE @OSS Dublin

9/28-10/1•

SODACON JAPAN @LF Tokyo

Dec

SPONSORSHIP/PARTICIPATION•LF Member Summit, Virtual

TBD•OSS N. America, Vancouver

8/3–8/6•OSS Europe, Dublin

9/29–10/2•

K8SDay, London

TBD•

KubeCon N. America, L.A.

10/12-10/15•

SNIA SDC, Santa Clara

TBD•

Open Infrastructure Summit

TBD

MEETUPS/WEBINARS•1 per quarter – US, Japan, China, India
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